Sunday, September 30, 2012

According to GCD, the artist here is Pauline Comanor, known at one time as the nations' ONLY girl cartoonist! She has a fascinating story which went right up until 2005 and she still maintains a posthumous presence on the Web at http://www.chunkymonkey.com/aboutcreator.htm

Saturday, September 29, 2012

SPACE RANGERS is similar to DC's later TOMMY TOMORROW strip with two bantering heroes flying through space writing wrongs. Bob Lubbers drew some of this series but once again in the one I've chosen here, GCD refuses to make a guess, let alone a commitment as to whom they think the artist to be. Some good stuff, though.

Friday, September 28, 2012

Maurice Gutwirth was a prolific Golden Age artist but I don't particularly like his art style. That said, one has to admire the energy he brings to this story of one of the dozen or so characters with "Eagle" in his name.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

This was a cute backup strip that ran in DC's long-running ADVENTURES OF BOB HOPE early on. GC lists future MAD superstar Mort Drucker as the artist on earlier installments but doesn't mention this one. The art looks the same, though, so I'd venture to say this is Mort, also.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Here's MAD's straight-laced suburban domestic king, Dave Berg, once again, in his even more ridiculous misspent youth. Not sure but it wouldn't surprise me if he was making a conscious effort at imitating Jack Cole here.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Here'a a Blue Beetle-looking Flash Gordon type with some interesting art. GCD won't even guess who the artist(s) might have been but whomever scanned this pencilled in that it's by Jim Mooney and Graham Ingels. Anyone familiar with their styles--very different from each other!--can see that's a good guess. I'd be definitely willing to say it's Mooney. Not as sure on Ingels but I can see it. An odd combo if true.

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Often looked at by the casual observer as having been created in response to TV's camp BATMAN of '66, here's the first appearance of Captain Sprocket from a full 3 years earlier, probably written by George Gladir. The character would continue to appear throughout the rest of the decade with progressive silliness.

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First published in 1968 (I was 9!), I have been writing professionally part-time for more than two decades. I have been freelancing for various authors, editors and publishers for the past three years on the behind-the-scenes tasks of writing.